1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Matthew 23:4 | *For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens: and lay them on men's shoulders: but with a finger of their own they will not move them. Luke 11:46.; Acts 15:10. | Heavy and insupportable burdens. Some understand in general the ceremonies of the law of Moses; but Christ seems rather here to mean the vain customs, traditions, and additions, introduced by the Jewish doctors, and by their Scribes and Pharisees. (Witham) --- They thus greatly increase the burden of others, by multiplying their obligations; whilst they will not offer themselves the least violence in observing them, or alleviating the burden, by taking any share upon their own shoulders. |